COPYRIGHT LAW: POLICY AND

GOVERNANCE

TOPIC: PROTECTION OF MULTIMEDIA WORKS UNDER

COPYRIGHT REGIME

Under the guidance and supervision of,

Dr. Lucky George

Submitted by,

HARI KRISHAN.G

I YEAR- LL.M – Intellectual Property Law

SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE IN LAW (SOEL)

DECLARATION:
I do hereby declare that the project entitled “PROTECTION OF MULTIMEDIA WORK
UNDER COPYRIGHT REGIME” has been prepared by me under the eminent guidance of
Dr. Lucky George, Department of Intellectual Property Law, it is the original work
carried out by me for the fulfillment of the requirements of the LLM (HONS) degree
programme of the School of Excellence law, TNDALU. No part of this project has already
formed the basis of any examination/ evaluation of any degree.

Name: HARI KRISHNAN G

Batch: LLM (HONS) 2021-23

School of Excellence, TNDALU, Chennai

ABSTRACT:
With the fast technological advances of the computer and the Internet, multimedia
information is winding up progressively boundless. Individuals of all foundations can make, adjust
and appropriate multimedia information around the globe. Multimedia has basically introduced
another time of correspondence and data stream, which has significantly affected society. Creators
have more chances to make content, explicitly in the multimedia position. Furthermore, the licensed
innovation law assumes a key job in securing the estimation of multimedia works. Be that as it may,
in actuality, it is difficult for the legitimate framework to adapt to changes in regard to the
organization and substance of multimedia works. In this paper, we address the idea of multimedia, the
job of copyright, and the advancements that can be utilized to secure the copyrights of multimedia
work. We additionally examine current issues on multimedia copyrights on the Web and present our
recommendations for multimedia copyright assurance on the Web.

Keywords: Content, Copyright, Project, Multimedia.

CONTENTS:

Sl. no CHAPTER AND SUBCHAPTERS Page no.

i) Declaration 02 03
06
ii) Abstract
iii) List of abbreviation

1 INTRODUCTION
07 08
1.1 Background
09 09
1.2 Research problem 10 10
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1.3 Existing legal situation 10
1.4 Research Questions 10

1.5 Research objectives

1.6 Hypothesis
1.7 Scope and Limitations
1.8 Research Methodology
1.9 Literature review

2 POSH ACT AND DEFICIENCIES:

2.1 Posh act on prevention of sexual harassment 13
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2.2 Deficiencies and possible solutions

3 VIOLATION OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS

3.1 Rights affected by sexual harassment 18

4 ROOT CAUSE AND VARIOUS COUNTRIES IN PREVENTION OF

SEXUAL HARASSMENT
21
4.1 Root cause of sexual harassment
23
4.2 Various countries in prevention of sexual harassment

Conclusion & Suggestions 26

Bibliography 27
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS:
AIR- All India Report
Art- Article
IPR- Intellectual Property Rights
SC- Supreme Court
SCC- Supreme Court Cases
Sec- Section
TRIPS- Trade-Related Aspect of Intellectual Property Law
UK- United Kingdom
US- United States
WTO- World Trade Organization
WIPO- World Intellectual Property Organization
UGC- Universal Copyright convention

LIST OF CASES:
 1. INTRODUCTION:

Copyright is a set of exclusive rights granted by law to the producers and creators of forms
of creative expressions such as literary, artistic, musical and cinematographic works. These rights
bestow on the copyright owner the control over the use of his work like their reproduction and
distribution for a limited duration. Copyright was formulated as a means of protecting creator’s right
to many uses of their original protected works including reproduction, dissemination, display and
most importantly to receive profit from that work. With the advent of Multimedia, especially the
internet and digital technology, there have been many changes in laws governing this basic right.
The concept of multimedia is extremely wide and encompasses within itself several categories
of material which include text, sounds, audio, video, images, graphics, presentations, live videos of
speech and performances, and so on.
Generally, copyright protection is available to multimedia under literary (software program), artistic
(images), cinematographic films (films or videos), dramatic (plays), sound recording (musical works),
and photographs. Protection of rights of the creators and owners of the Copyright becomes difficult
due to the variety of rights available to copyright owners under the ambit of multimedia.
 Infringement in multimedia involves
 Copying the works of a creator without his permission
 Distributing multimedia products other than for educational purposes
 Creating prints of literary or artistic works without prior permission of the creators
 Dubbing and selling, through any multimedia product a sound recording without the prior
permission of its creator.

1.1. EXISTING LEGAL SITUATION:

1.2. RESEARCH QUESTION:

1.3. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:

1.4. RESEARCH PROBLEM:

1.5. HYPOTHESIS:
Multimedia work is not sufficiently protected by the Copyright law.

1.6. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY:

1.7. LITERATURE REVIEW: